Are you familiar with the book "The Gospel of Judas"?

Question

My cousin has it. What do you think? Do you think it's true? What are your views about it?

Answer 1

The document is not claimed to have been written by apostle Judas Iscariot himself, but rather by Gnostic followers of Jesus Christ. It exists in an early fourth century Coptic text, though it has been proposed, but not proven, that the text is a translation of an earlier Greek version. The Gospel of Judas is probably from no earlier than the second century, since it contains theology that is not represented before the second half of the second century, and since its introduction and epilogue assume the reader is familiar with the canonical Gospels

Answer 2

During the second and third centuries AD, various Christian sects composed texts which are loosely labeled New Testament Apocrypha; these texts are usually but not always “pseudo-anonymous”, i.e. falsely attributed to a notable figure, such as an apostle, of an earlier era.

The text is extant in only one manuscript, a fourth century Coptic manuscript known as the Codex Tchacos, which surfaced in the 1970s, after about sixteen centuries in the desert of Egypt as a leather-bound papyrus manuscript. The existing manuscript was radiocarbon dated "between the third and fourth century", according to Timothy Jull, a carbon-dating expert at the University of Arizona's physics centre. Only sections of papyrus with no text were carbon dated.

Answer 3

The Gospel of Judas was one of the gnostic gospels which was written about 140 years after Christ died by someone who came on the scene long after Christ and all the apostles had died. Ireneas identified this book as heretical. The church never accepted it. It simply didn't agree with what the original eye-witnesses said.

http://www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/gospel-of-judas.htm

Answer 4

How are people checking this "book" out of libraries when it has not been completely translated yet? Someone, please give me the name of the author so I can get a copy? It was only within the last year or so that the translation even began, so I find it hard to believe that anyone has read this "book".

Answer 5

It is not worth reading, the last person covered it well. This was not writen by Judus of any one that was a apostle or a eye witness to the events thus it is of not merit.

Answer 6

I checked it out of my library once, thinking it was some interesting Christian reading, but once I got it home, I opened it and after a short while, decided it wasn't worth my time.

I don't remember what it was, but it just didn't seem like a good Christian read, IMO.

Answer 7

No... but I am familiar with the book of Sesay...